Conservative viewers were furious at Megyn Kelly’s attacks on the Republican candidates during the FOX News debate.
Twitter exploded with attacks on Kelly and FOX News for the constant attacks on the Republican candidates.
Here is just one example:
After this debate, my opinion changed the MOST about @foxnews, @megynkelly, @BretBaier & Chris Wallace! Utterly Disappointed…#GOPDebate
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) August 7, 2015
Days after the debate an online petition was set up to bar Megyn Kelly from future GOP debates.
OVER 54,000 HAVE SIGNED THE PETITION–
Via Change.org:
That’s not all…
The Stump for Trump ladies went off on Megyn Kelly.
And, author Gabriel Sherman went on with Steve Malzberg on NewsMax TV Thursday. Sherman wrote The Loudest Voice in the Room in 2014 on FOX News President Roger Ailes. Today he told Malzberg that Megyn Kelly wants to go mainstream and is keeping her options open.
Sherman also described how FOX News was shocked by the volume of emails, calls, etc. the outlet received after the controversial debate.
Gabriel Sherman: In the days after the debate all of the emails and messages that FOX News was getting from their viewers were pro-Trump emails. Roger Ailes and his executives at FOX were shocked at the volume of the response. And, they really didn’t know what to do because their audience loves Trump. And yet FOX be all measures really hammered him. So they were sort of treating him with kid gloves until this interview when he came forward and questioned her vacation. That’s when they released a statement and compared him to conspiracy theories… Roger Ailes has never really faced an adversary like Donald Trump. Donald Trump doesn’t play by his rules so Ailes does not know what to do. This week he decided to come out and hit him…
Steve Malzberg: You also talk about in this piece the conspiracy theories that this is all setting up down the road the big Megyn Kelly – Donald Trump sit-down. And this is somehow being, if not coordinated, discussed by Ailes and Trump… Why is Megyn Kelly not firing back at this point?
Gabriel Sherman: Well, she, up until this point, was the fastest rising star at FOX News. She was really becoming the face of the network. And, I don’t think she wants to get down in the weeds and the gutter and play this kind of hardball politics.
Steve Malzberg: Because she’ll lose.
The GOP debate was not one of FOX News Channel’s finer moments.